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Miss. to execute man not directly at fault in killing

Miss. to execute man not directly at fault in killingThirteen states, military bar execution of criminals in such murder casesJERRY MITCHELL ? JMITCHELL@CLARIONLEDGER.COM ? JULY 20, 2008Mississippi prison officials plan to execute Dale Leo Bishop Wednesday - unless a court halts them.But this wouldn't be happening to the 34-year-old inmate if he had been convicted in the neighboring states of Alabama or Louisiana. That's because 13 of the 36 states with the death penalty - as well as the U.S. military - bar the execution of a defendant who wasn't directly responsible for a slaying.If Bishop, who suffers from mental illness, receives a lethal injection on Wednesday, he would be only the eighth person put to death - and the first since 1996 - who did not directly kill the victim (not including contract killings) in the more than 1,100 executions since the U...continue to full post

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